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the country are trying to make their services available to medical professionals and first responders to help them deal with the coronavirus crisis and one navy veteran who has provided mental health services to troops overseas said those on the front lines of this battle have extra stress.>> when you were deployed your >> is there a mechanical family was safe back home but these folks are scared they will bring the virus to their formula? there is none, comes from your heart and your brain.>> property owners at half moon family. >> the therapy sessions have good to see you, sal and may want to set a good example been set up over videos steve working from home. services like skype or zoom and steve, things are rapidly going to and we will tell you how he is they can last from 1:45 hours. change many the weather here. trying to get others to follow >> yeah, they will starting tonight and to tomorrow. his lead.>> our job is to put the captain of a u.s. navy it all on the line. aircraft carrier struggling no doubt about it. today is the with coronavirus outbreak has been relieved of his command. day if you >> first responders answering the call during the coronavirus that is after his letter about pandemic but who is taking care the crisis came public. of them and their mental captain crozier who is from health?>> from ktvu fox 2 santa rosa asked the navy to news this is mornings on 2 >> good morning and welcome to remove 90% of the crew of the
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mornings on 2 i am dave clark . uss theodore roosevelt to stop >> good morning i'm pam cook the spread of covid 19 on board. a pentagon official says he friday, april 3, it has been a wasn't removed because of his letter but rather from allowing the complexity of this long week as we make more challenge with the outbreak on adjustments and steve paulson i the ship to overwhelm his would normally ability to act drive is like up to tahoe because there is a lot of new professionally.>> it devastated extremely poor judgment in the snow but cannot do that yet it middle of the crisis.>> navy is good for the water supply>> officials called the captain an looks like a good snow event honorable man but they say that for them and we will get rain, starting tomorrow continuing two's to me people were sunday into monday but they can included on the letter and it caused panic on the ship and so far more than 100 sailors have measure this 3 to 4 feet by tested positive for the virus and most of the ships crew of early next week, not as cold almost 5000 sailors will be this morning, 30s and 40s, not quarantined in guam where the a lot of moisture coming in and ship is now docked. the wind has changed a little this is a look at the impact of this outbreak worldwide. and the golden gate park has a breeze out of the west northwest at 12 and patchy fog johns hopkins university reports there are now close to and yesterday they were 41 1.1 million confirmed cases so which is not the case today. leading edge of the systems far end of 54,000 people have running cloud cover in a decent reason the hills, a little bit died with nearly one quarter of 1 million people recovering. of a puff of breeze which will play into slightly warmer lows the united kingdom missing a
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this morning and slightly cooler high temperatures. the weekend rain on the way rapid increase in new cases and deaths, there are now more than with similar projections coming up but isolated areas of 2.5. 34,000 people infected with nearly 3000 deaths a little bit cooler today and 50s and 60s. usually you think it would be administration of prime minister boris johnson has been quiet but yesterday there was a little bit going on see what especially among medical the man says starting out of workers, many of them have self quarantined out of fear of having the virus.>> the first the gate.>> thank you steve. priority has to be the patient's for whom the result of a test could be the difference in treatment, and there is a new collision on south on 101 approaching the golden gate bridge, just after the robin williams tunnel. difference between life and and of course on the golden gate traffic is light right now death.>> the uk said it will but you might see a crash just ramp up testing in the coming days and experts say that on the other side of the tunnel as you go from mill valley through sausalito into that widespread testing has benefited germany which is tunnel so be careful, chp was choosing to test people even if they have mild symptoms. now we are waiting for the us dealing with it a little while labor department to release the monthly jobs report for march ago but not seeming to cause a major jam off to a good start which comes out about one hour on friday now back to the from now and economists are headlines.
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fema told the house addicting the nation's unemployment rate will only rise a fraction from the oversight committee most of the current 3.5% and that is 100,000 ventilators president because the jobless numbers trump promised the us would get were collected for the first two weeks of march just as the will not be available until outbreak was getting the labor june. fema says a shortage of ventilators could get worse by the middle of this outbreak pea market and stocks will open down this morning, about 1% despite new measures from the federal government and states fema also said it has amid helping small businesses. distributed tens of millions of we are now learning how respirators, masks and gloves and 8100 ventilators in the hard the bay area real estate market has been hit during this strategic national stockpile right now the focus is on getting those 100,000 coronavirus crisis. the san francisco business ventilators.>> all of those journal reports 250 active listings in the city were vendors we are buying them from pulled off the market during will potentially need help in the second week of march their supply chains with their compared to only 16 listings removed the week before. san mateo and alameda counties each saw 100 listings removed suppliers.>> the white house said president trump is invoking the defense production act to clear up any supply during the second week of march and in santa clara county that number was almost 2 200. change issued encountered in the manufacturing of ventilators and to make sure the production of extra and 95 facemask are completed. a major property owner and
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the bay area is waving two months rent because of the around the country nurses coronavirus outbreak, joe has more than 65 tenants including and doctors are pleading for more protective medical retail businesses and equipment.>> they staged restaurants in half moon bay protests outside of hospitals and he says shop owners should demanding the government not have to pay rent because they have been forced to close provide more personal it typically his tenants pay protective equipment and they more than $4000 a month for say they are forced to reuse rent. masks and gloves covid 19 units but in april and may they will pay nothing. and to put themselves and their he is encouraging other property owners to do the same patients at risk. thing.>> you have people earning at shopkeepers bank >> every day when i go to work i feel like a sheep going to slaughter and my colleagues and i are writing our last will and dishwashers $12-$15 an hour and test them it. >> president trump invoked the they can hardly pay their bills defense production act to force on that so they close up and they're out on the streets look the company 3m to make more n95 what will happen to our masks and the president that me society. i am asking everybody that owns a commercial building to stop and think before you take that rent check. >> many of the tenants own small boutiques and restaurants and he says if one store goes out of business others will follow.>> that is such a big
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concern right now and the effect that it will have on small towns everywhere, if you lose businesses and restaurants, and hope we can make it through this. right now it is 4:39 am and we want to check with steve paulson, quite a bit of rain and snow coming our way.>> i would say more snow than rain but pretty good totals as well here and most of it will come sunday, everything setting up to look pretty good and hopefully does not give us a little fake but temperatures are not as cold this morning. a little more of a breeze in the amount of moisture in the air is increasing, a lot of 40s, santa rosa was 68 and down a little and same for palo alto in the san jose area coming down a few degrees. yesterday was wall-to-wall sunshine and today already clouds moving in around mendocino county, a little breeze and patchy fog has popped up on the san mateo
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coast. those combinations are keeping loads more in the 40s after a lot of 30s yesterday but still a few, menlo park woodside and hillsboro, the first system will not do much but it will bring light rain on saturday. the bigger system arrives on sunday so maybe half an issue of rain on saturday and a break saturday night into sunday before the next system moves in this could give pretty good totals from russian river and the santa cruz mountains the projections for mount shasta and south lake tahoe are 2 to 3 feet of snow open snow level might be down to 5000 and will not impact us until sunday night or monday, look at that, a lot of snow on the way. 50s a 60 day, mark it that the is partly sunny to the north, rain off and on monday into
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tuesday. and in the south bay there is a covid 19 outbreak at a nursing home, with a nursing home staff and county health experts are doing to contain the virus plus what is being done at the federal level to stop thousands of medical grade masks from being auctioned off to the highest bidder. and this is a lie look at your traffic on golden gate bridge, barely any traffic right now, things running smooth, sal castaneda will keep an eye on that and join us later for this morning's edition of traffic jams coming up on mornings on 2 . >> sewing machines are humming in sonoma county and in five days 250 masks made and distributed.>> so what can i do? sit at home? i can do this and this is for people who do not have anything
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good this is for major hospitals. if i can make them smile as they wear them it makes me feel better about what i am doing them.>> so while you're discovering new things to do in the box, we'll be here for you... at the drive-thru, on the mobile app, and with delivery. on the mobile app, as we work to get through these times together. ♪ you may not be thinking about blood donation, but blood is desperately needed now to save lives
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of people who are sick with a range of serious illnesses. it's easy, and safe to give. if you are in good health please donate, we need heroes now. visit redcrossblood.org to schedule an appointment. while keeping safe and staying in, we can still go out! -sort of. so while you're discovering new things to do in the box, we'll be here for you... at the drive-thru, on the mobile app, and with delivery. >> welcome back it is 4:44 am and police in richmond are investigating it deadly drive- by shooting, police say a 43 old man was driving a dark green sedan last night when he was shot another driver on cutting boulevard near south
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45th and the victim was hit multiple times and crashed into a pole. police say he died on the scene and so far no arrests have been made and this is the first homicide of the year. and we do have an update on the coyote attack in the east bay and police say they have shot and killed the coyote they believed attacked a six-year- old girl and the little girl was with her family wednesday at the regional park and one coyote and a jumped on the girl and bit her in the neck, she was taken to children's hospital in oakland with non-life-threatening injuries the coyote is now being tested to see if it's dna confirms it is linked to the attack and also to see if it has rabies.. a nursing home in the south bay is dealing with a cluster of coronavirus cases at least six residents and staff have tested positive for the virus, nearly 2 at least six residents and staff have tested positive for the virus, nearly 200 people are housed at canyon springs in east san jose. officials say that two
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residents and four staffers are infected by coronavirus and one resident was discharged before the test results came back on the other is in the hospital. 26 other residents and staffers are being tested.>> the situation with any nursing home or any close confinement situation like a prison can be extremely dangerous. >> canyon springs caters to those who need care after hospitalization as well as those with dementia or alzheimer's officials say stricter protocols are now in place including screening staff and essential visitors and monitoring residents conditions more frequently. in a statement to ktvu canyon springs officials say that quote our top priority remains the health and well-being of everyone in our facility.>> we will chase down people who are hoarding this and stockpiling it and keeping it out of the supply chain or the purpose of taking advantage of the severe
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need for it right now. >> the justice department cracking down on people trying to make a profit of protective medical supplies during this pandemic. investigative reporter brooks jarosz uncovered thousands of masks sitting in a warehouse that were sold to the highest bidder.>>reporter: a website that sells a variety of government surplus is facing a fierce battle over a pallet of in 95 respirator masks and they are all expired but still he did not stop them for being sold at a huge markup. on the front lines these are valuable resources and online there is money to be made. pallets of and 95 respirators like this one auctioned off for thousands of dollars.>> in one auction there were two bidders from new jersey fighting back and forth trying to get this pallet of n95 masks. >> mark lindquist was an air force veteran who wanted to
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help during the coronavirus pandemic and looked to buy masks to donate to the va hospital in phoenix. >> everybody's first focus should be let's make sure that our people do not die. spent which brought him here to this website that resells government surplus like a military 4 x 4 or this tanker truck and even a helicopter from the pennsylvania state police or this $950,000 plane. but what he found was marked up surgical masks. >> i had to watch those three pallets of masks sit there and it tells me that the leaders are not trying hard enough quite honestly. >> bidding started at florida at $11,500, $.67 a mask, and days of bidding wrapping up a d california and new jersey, sometimes minute by minute and the winning bid was new jersey at $26,900 for nearly 7700 respirators which is roughly
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350 a mask.>> someone in your hospital this past week. >> to make matters worse it was government agencies bidding against one another for what was originally government property and these masks were expired by many years but still better than no mask at all.>> i think it is ridiculous because all the hospitals right now are running low on supplies and we need them for patients and employees and staff.>> go planet called it an isolated incident and blamed the private seller even though the company acted as the auctioneer but we found is the coronavirus outbreak grew so did sales and palace of respirators going for $6000 on january 28 and then 21,000 on march 10, jumping to that $26,900 on march 17. >> it is sad will
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hold materials and try to wait for somebody to buy it at a higher rate.>> exactly one year ago a pallet of these n95 masks went for 250 dollars or just $.25 apiece.>> we are talking about people that are hoarding these goods and materials on an industrial scale for the purpose of manipulating the markets and ultimately driving windfall profits.>> attorney general william barr explained president trump signed an executive order to address hoarding and price gouging on scarce medical supplies. >> if you are sitting on a warehouse with masks, surgical masks, you will be hearing a knock on your door.>> go planet says it is not under investigation in a spokesperson said the company took action to remove n95 masks and medical supplies returning them to the federal government so they could get into the hands
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of health workers.>> we need to get these things moving and i as an american citizen and asking for our leaders to do things now. get a plan.>> the plan says that go planet will be to identify any high-priority medical supplies and return them so they can get areas of need that we found ventilators like this, still for sale and the company insists it is taking additional steps to respond to the pandemic. right now have people making masks and first responders reusing them and auctions of respirators and surgical gloves have disappeared from that website and they have also removed all of the evidence we found of those n95 masks. brooks jarosz ktvu fox 2 news .>> 4:51 am is the time and let's check with steve, we're getting rain this weekend.>> we better or my forecast is just
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way off. but it sure looks like it did some on saturday and more so on sunday and the lows were down to critical minimums but not the case today, so far running much warmer with a few 30s but a lot more 40s. a little more of a breeze and a few clouds moving into the north and patchy fog. it will be okay today but not as nice as yesterday and you see that cloud cover beginning to make the move around mendocino county. a little bit of a breeze around livermore and sfo at half moon bay, temperatures in the 30s but a lot more 40s, 48 at half moon bay and the city at 49 at half moon bay and the city at 4930s in the santa clara valley, same for felton and boulder creek and 40 around campbell and cupertino. first system moving on saturday which is the weaker of the two systems but it will usher in weekend rain on saturday and then the outlook shows a stronger system sunday into
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monday which will pick up the rainfall, look at santa rosa being painted with an inch and a half and if that is the case the old rule of thumb is double that for the russian river. santa cruz mountains and also around the russian river should get pretty good totals and the silp. we will not get close to normal but it will add a bunch late in the season, 60s most of the day and cloud cover roles in an moderate saturday and have your rain sunday into monday with the possibility of thundershowers early next week. and in michigan a sudden jump in the number of coronavirus cases, will take a look at the hotspots around the country and the efforts to get more test kits to those areas immediately. plus good news for california as more tests are administered statewide. but first we will tell you about an operation underway to get more scrubs to doctors and
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>> welcome back to mornings on 2 and i am in a james bond mood after this . this is from 1964. we are in the way back machine today on traffic jams. people who wake up early have been sending these great way back songs. sean connery was in this movie by the way and thank you for the request. go ahead and send me your
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requests, no particular theme, and use the hashtag ktvu . >> well tomorrow is the 150th birthday of golden gate park in san francisco. however because of the coronavirus pandemic list of tomorrow's planted celebrations are postponed and instead there will be a virtual celebration with videos, podcasts, digital books and photo albums toasting golden gate park's big milestone and we post all the information about tomorrow's virtual celebration on ktvu.com . some kids at a childcare center in the east bay are enjoying easter eggs thanks to an early visit from the easter bunny the city operthe annual community family day in the park event. organizers decided to use the eggs from the canceled egg hunt
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and pass them out curbside yesterday's deliveries gave teachers at the center a chance to see the kids from a distance. >> it is a great opportunity to get out and show the committee that we are still here and we care about them and we want everybody to be safe. it is just a different situation and it is nice to offer something to the parents and let them get out of the house a little bit.>> that is for sure in the committee center has been delivering bags of food to those in need. a uniform company is donating scrubs from medical tv shows to real-life healthcare workers. barco uniform supplies the scrubs you see on the tv show grays anatomy and other shows and this ebony based in southern california is donating 10,000 scrubs every month to institutions that need them. the company also says it will donate 350,000 masks to
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hospitals all over california. well the my hero bay area spotlight this morning is this man, best coast burritos and they have locations in oakland and over the past week they have donated hundreds of burritos hospital emergency rooms all over the bay area. if you would like to get a meal to healthcare workers he has created a gofundme page and we have posted a link to the campaign on our website, ktvu.com , find it under the web links tab. and do you know someone who is making a difference or providing hope in your community? we want you to nominate your local hero, email your story, along with photos or video of that person in action to myhero@foxtv.com for we to
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